Network Security in Healthcare Networks: Potential Issues and Solutions

Overview of network security

Table of Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................................1
Literature review on Healthcare Networks................................................................................1
Recent developments in healthcare networks.........................................................................2
The importance of security in healthcare networks................................................................3
Possible potential security issues in Healthcare Networks........................................................3
Possible solutions...................................................................................................................5
Conclusion..................................................................................................................................6
References..................................................................................................................................7

Introduction
Network security is important for every organisation as it enables security in all the
resources and assets. Network security act as a defence for all the layers as it protects all the
resources and offers integrity to the data packets. It identifies various threats and stops them
to penetrate in the system. In health care network, security helps in securing the data from all
the third party users. In health care networks security is maintained by firewalls that do not
allow unauthenticated user to access the data. In this report, the focus is upon the health care
networks and how steps could be taken to protect the network from all the bugs. The first part
of the report focuses upon the architecture of health care networks and the devices that are
needed to transfer data from one network to other.
Literature review on Healthcare Networks
It is observed that medical institutions are using computer networks and healthcare
network technology to make sure that data remain secure and allow access to information
through a centralised system. Health care centres have adopted the use of healthcare networks
so that the problems of authentication, security and privacy are resolved. In the network
architecture, there are various devices that offer benefits. The network architecture consists of
routers, firewalls, switches and hubs [1]. Hubs are a device that is used to link various
components with the servers and workstations. They are basically used to support various
clusters in the network. Switches are also used to move the data packets from one device to
other [8]. Switching devices are used to connect network adapters to MAC address. Router is
a device that is used to send the data packets from one network segment to another. Theses
network devices are used to exchange information from device to other. They transfer the
information through a most efficient path. Load balances and firewalls are also the part of